Research Scientist

• Prepare samples and perform analytical tests
• Record data and observations and prepare experiment summaries
• Perform compaction testing
• Analyze compacted samples for thermal conductivity, push-out strength, and X-ray results
• Troubleshoot basic process issues and escalate appropriately
• Perform parameter optimization and failure analysis
• Handle microscopic components using microscopes, tweezers, and vacuum tools
• Document processes, perform basic troubleshooting, and maintain repeatability and yield
• Contribute to development and improvement of chemical products and technologies
• Support new product development and continuous improvement initiatives
• Collaborate in multidisciplinary and cross-functional teams

R&D Scientist I

• Design and execute in vivo pharmacology studies across Neurology programs in rodents and non-human primates toward IND submission
• Partner with toxicology and translational teams to ensure rigorous, reproducible, and translatable in vivo pharmacology data
• Inform dose selection and go/no-go decisions
• Develop and implement pharmacodynamic and efficacy assessments
• Troubleshoot assays and quality-control data from CROs and external partners
• Manage CRO relationships and monitor study progress
• Identify emerging study risks and present progress updates in team meetings
• Analyze in vivo pharmacology endpoints, including PK/bioanalysis and pharmacodynamic and/or efficacy endpoints

Principal Scientist, In Vivo Pharmacology, Neurology

• Recruit and schedule approximately 30 study participants within the study window
• Coordinate frame shipments to participants' homes, working with the frame-selection lead on sizing
• Collect and verify at-home OC kit photo submissions before scheduling in-office visits
• Run approximately two-hour in-office sessions and coordinate opticians
• Capture in-office OC kit photos
• Ensure collection of four required data points per participant: face scan, at-home image, in-office image, and optician OC height readings two to three times
• Administer consent and intake paperwork according to IRB requirements
• Organize and quality-assure collected data in the shared repository used for model analysis
• Flag data gaps or inconsistent readings
• Serve as the single point of contact for participants
• Provide the Principal Investigator with daily or every-other-day status updates on recruitment, scheduling, and data completeness against the N=30 target

Research Assistant – Virtual OC Validation Study

• Take ownership of and accelerate the team's research agenda
• Propose new research directions within the team's agenda
• Develop, evaluate, and demonstrate methods leveraging model internals to improve AI safety
• Stress-test white-box methods on real-world tasks, including long-context agentic coding
• Evaluate methods against strong black-box methods and activation probes
• Study applications including white-box control, evaluation awareness, training-dynamics shaping, reward hacking, sandbagging, and research tampering
• Define realistic evaluations with Goodhart-resistant metrics
• Develop and iterate methods using FAR.AI's compute and infrastructure
• Ensure methods are simple and efficient enough for frontier-scale deployment
• Publish findings broadly and engage with the AI alignment community
• Attend relevant conferences and community events
• Collaborate with national AI safety institutes, frontier model developers, and top academics

Research Scientist, Applied White-Box Methods

• Perform automated oligonucleotide synthesis, deprotection, purification, and conjugation for R&D projects
• Purify oligonucleotides using chromatographic techniques
• Characterize oligonucleotides using physicochemical techniques
• Participate in basic research projects exploiting novel oligonucleotide properties in R&D assays
• Conduct oligonucleotide analysis using LCMS, MALDI, UV/VIS, and HPLC/UPLC
• Evaluate and identify impurities, degradation products, and synthesis by-products
• Establish analytical protocols and support their implementation
• Lead and execute complex experiments, including experimental design, data analysis and interpretation, results communication, and follow-up experiment design
• Own subproject or project goals and deliverables
• Provide guidance and direction on experimental work
• Interact with peers and supervisors to provide experimental summaries, design input, and ancillary team support
• Maintain clearly written experimental records in written and electronic formats
• Present work internally or at scientific conferences and write scientific papers
• Potentially manage one or more personnel and represent R&D on a product-development Core Team
• Collaborate with junior employees, peers, and cross-functional teams across the organization

Senior Scientist – R&D Oligo Synthesis

• Own RL-based post-training for video diffusion/flow-matching models
• Run RL post-training, including preference optimization and online RL against learned rewards, at multi-node scale
• Build video reward models by defining evaluation dimensions, configuring preference data collection workflows, training and validating learned judges, and safeguarding against reward hacking
• Own post-training evaluation using human preference studies and correlation with automated metrics
• Distill RL-tuned models to efficient few-step samplers while preserving alignment gains
• Collaborate with engineering and product teams
• Shape real-time creative and agentic video platforms

Research Scientist – Video Generation

• Take ownership of and accelerate the Applied White-Box Methods team's research agenda
• Develop, evaluate, and demonstrate methods leveraging model internals to improve AI safety
• Stress-test white-box methods on real-world tasks, including long-context agentic coding
• Study applications including white-box control, evaluation awareness, training-dynamics shaping, alignment, reward hacking, sandbagging, and research tampering
• Define realistic evaluations with Goodhart-resistant metrics
• Develop methods using realistic, large-scale models and evaluations
• Compare white-box methods against black-box methods and activation probes
• Ensure practical monitors and interventions are simple and efficient enough for frontier-scale deployment
• Publish findings broadly and engage with the AI alignment community
• Propose new research directions within the team's agenda
• Attend relevant conferences and community events
• Collaborate with national AI safety institutes, frontier model developers, and top academics
• Complete interviews with technical staff followed by a paid work trial of up to one week

• Specify, research, design, and develop scalable optimization algorithms for large, complex resource allocation problems
• Apply machine learning, integer optimisation, metaheuristic, and other algorithms to improve solution quality and computational efficiency
• Collaborate with researchers and software engineers to translate research into commercial product capabilities
• Evaluate new approaches against realistic problem sizes, constraints, and performance requirements
• Publish at leading international conferences
• Contribute to patent applications
• Develop and maintain documentation for novel algorithms
• Integrate research efforts into practical capabilities operating at the scale and speed required by production systems

Research Scientist, Optimization Systems

• Lead Sofar’s underwater acoustics strategy and define the technical vision for its underwater acoustics platform
• Develop capabilities to detect, classify, localize, and track acoustic sources and targets using passive and/or active techniques
• Drive AI/ML model development for edge-based and cloud-based acoustic intelligence
• Advance ocean soundscape mapping and characterization, including ambient noise, acoustic propagation, and oceanographic and geoacoustic context
• Provide acoustics expertise for sensing-system design, including hydrophone/array selection, calibration, geometry, deployment strategy, data quality, and performance validation
• Collaborate with ocean and sensing scientists and hardware and software engineers to translate domain expertise into operational products
• Design and conduct field experiments and at-sea data collection
• Perform data analysis, modeling, and simulation studies, including propagation and detection-performance modeling
• Define product requirements, technical roadmaps, and priorities for new underwater acoustic capabilities
• Represent Sofar with customers, research partners, government agencies, and the broader ocean acoustics community

Principal Scientist – Underwater Acoustics

• Serve as Voyager-EMSI's principal technical authority for SAR, radar signal processing, and remote sensing phenomenology across airborne, space-based, and other advanced sensor platforms
• Evaluate sensor capabilities, collection geometries, waveforms, and system characteristics affecting data quality and exploitation potential
• Diagnose complex SAR data quality, calibration, image formation, and exploitation challenges
• Establish technical vision and research priorities for SAR signal processing, exploitation, and advanced analytics
• Lead technical trade studies and feasibility assessments for new sensor concepts, processing techniques, and algorithms
• Guide integration of classical signal processing, physics-based modeling, and machine learning
• Define development roadmaps and review technical assumptions and decisions across the SAR portfolio
• Provide technical direction to multidisciplinary scientists, engineers, and analysts and mentor staff
• Conduct technical reviews and establish standards for experimentation, validation, and documentation
• Serve as escalation point for difficult SAR technical challenges
• Advise government, defense, intelligence, commercial, and research customers
• Translate mission needs into technically achievable concepts and communicate SAR concepts and tradeoffs to stakeholders
• Represent Voyager-EMSI in customer meetings, industry events, and advisory forums
• Drive business development by identifying customer needs, market opportunities, and technical gaps
• Provide technical leadership for proposals, white papers, briefings, and internal research initiatives
• Author or contribute to publications, patents, and thought-leadership materials
• Advise executive and program leadership on technical risks, investments, and strategic decisions
• Support program reviews, independent assessments, and resolution of customer concerns
• Preserve and expand EMSI's specialized technical knowledge
• Report to the General Manager

Research Scientist jobs in California

R&D Scientist I

Principal Scientist, In Vivo Pharmacology, Neurology

Research Assistant – Virtual OC Validation Study

Research Scientist, Applied White-Box Methods

Senior Scientist – R&D Oligo Synthesis

Research Scientist – Video Generation

Research Scientist, Applied White-Box Methods

Research Scientist, Optimization Systems

Principal Scientist – Underwater Acoustics

Principal Scientist, Radar and Remote Sensing